Games with odd content ratings

[aliensstudios]

I thought of another odd rating. Or rather, I find it odd that the developers made it so they would get a certain rating.

Dark Souls II and the upcoming Dark Souls III have a T rating, but Demon's Souls and Dark Souls have an M rating. For games that have such dark, depressing and bleak atmosphere with stories to match, one would think that the graphics would follow suit. I feel that games like that should have the blood and gore to make it earn the M rating. It just won't feel as impactful with a T rating.

Since we are talking about ESRB ratings and not say...PEGI ratings, this country is so flippin' messed up that if Looney Tunes were a new show today, it would be on Adult Swim or labeled for Teens and up. 

You know, because I totally remember kids when I was growing up strapping ACME rockets to our back and dropping anvils on our heads like Wiley Coyote.  Or totally thinking that it was real.   

At least they finally struck down the "No Child Left Behind" act.  All it did was make it so every kid would pass.  The problem?  They dumbed down the curriculum so that everyone could pass.  Because it's a sin that some kids who were slower or had a learning disability would be in special education classes. 

Looney Tunes is a go to whenever I need to be cheered up and need of a good laugh. I fear that kids these days won't be able to watch it because some brainless nitwit of a parent will see one episode and get offended as is common practice in this country and some sort of protesting will follow.

Yet they'll let them watch Uncle Grandpa and My Little Pony stupid crap like that. The unfortunate thing is they are depriving their children of such excellent and smart entertainment. They won't let them watch Looney Tunes because it has "offensive" content or they won't let them watch something like Speed Racer because it's too violent. The problem is most parents now grew up during the eighties and are millennial's don't have an appreciation of the classics. Essentially, these progressive modernist parents are basically children raising children. It leaves little to be desired when you think of how badly screwed the future generations of people will be.
P.S. I was born in 1994.

[kmacdw]

What is the story with 'M' and 'AO' as ratings? And how do they translate in terms of age? Someone once told me M is 17+ and AO is 18+, that can't be right surely? What's the difference in a year? Aside from being legally an adult of course.

In Europe we have 16+ and 18+ which I suppose are the equivalents. However games often get 18+ ratings, ones which tend to get an 'M', yet they still sell fine here and are stocked everywhere.

[aliensstudios]

What is the story with 'M' and 'AO' as ratings? And how do they translate in terms of age? Someone once told me M is 17+ and AO is 18+, that can't be right surely? What's the difference in a year? Aside from being legally an adult of course.

In Europe we have 16+ and 18+ which I suppose are the equivalents. However games often get 18+ ratings, ones which tend to get an 'M', yet they still sell fine here and are stocked everywhere.

AO is really only different in the sense that most publishers including Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft won't allow AO titles to be released on their consoles. AO basically is games with pornographic content or extreme violence.

[telly]

^^ Or games where you can bet real money/ real gambling. I think most retailers won't stock or sell AO games either, but I could be mistaken.

[turom]

Related => http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,6385.msg104531.html#msg104531

[badATchaos]

lol How did we get onto edu-politics?